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Senior Lecturer

Telephone:	(61 8)  9370 6410
Email:	m.masek@ecu.edu.au
Campus:	Mount Lawley
Room:	ML13.218

 

Current Teaching

• Games and Simulation Development and Software Engineering
• Honours Coordinator
  

Professional Memberships

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• International Game Developers Association (IGDA)

Research Areas and Interests

• Computer vision and image processing
• Applications of games technology
• Applications of software to health
• Mobile phone remote health diagnosis
• Games for health
• Computational red teaming

Staff Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, 2004 .
• Bachelor of Engineering Honours, The University of Western Australia, 2004 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring for Preeclampsia,  Nortel Networks,  Grant - Development,  2011,  $25,000.
• AE2 Simulation National Archives of Australia,  National Archives of Australia,  Grant - Ian Maclean Award(**),  2010,  $7,500.
• Promoting Youth Mental Health Using Gaming Technology: An RCT Pilot Study,  Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation),  Healthway - Research Starter Grant(**),  2010,  $29,072.
• Autonomous Mobile Robotic Mapping and Surveillance,  Edith Cowan University,  Grant - Industry Collaboration,  2009,  $30,000.
• AE2 Simulation National Archives of Australia,  NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA,  Grant - Ian Maclean Award,  2009,  $7,500.
• Fetal Heart Rate and Activity Monitoring via Smart Phones,  Microsoft Research,  Grant,  2008,  $108,063.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

• Masek, M., Murcia, K., Morrison, J., (2012), Getting serious with iPads: The intersection of game design and teaching principals. Australian Educational Computing, 27(2), 34-38, Frankston VIC.
• Boeing, A., Boulton, M., Braunl, T., Frisch, B., Lopes, S., Morgan, A., Ophelders, F., Pangeni, S., Reid, R., Vinsen, K., Garel, N., Lee, CS., Masek, M., Attwood, A., Fazio, M., Gandossi, A., (2012), WAMbot: Team MAGICian's entry to the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge 2010. Journal of Field Robotics, 29(5), 707-728, DOI: 10.1002/rob.21434.
• Brogan, M., Masek, M., (2011), AE2 Commander: Simulation and serious games in the online cultural heritage space. Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists Inc., 39(1), 85-106, Virginia, QLD.
• Sinclair, JR., Hingston, P., Masek, M., Nosaka, K., (2009), Using a Virtual Body to Aid in Exergaming System Development. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 29(2), 39-48, United States, DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2009.37.

Conference Publications

• Nguyen, K., Li, B., Masek, M., Gulatee, Y., (2012), Exploration games played on a DDR Pad can constitute beneficial physical exercise. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2190-2194, Piscataway, N.J., DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378065.
• Beard, D., Hingston, P., Masek, M., (2012), Using Monte Carlo Tree Search for Replanning in a Multistage Simultaneous Game. Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1-8.
• Hingston, P., Ranjeet, T., Lam, P., Masek, M., (2012), A Multimodal Problem for Competitive Coevolution. Proceedings of the 25th Australasian joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 338-349, Heidelberg, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35101-3_29.
• Ranjeet, T., Hingston, P., Lam, P., Masek, M., (2012), Evaluating Coevolution on a Multimodal Problem. GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Companion, 1469-1470, DOI: 10.1145/2330784.2330995.
• Masek, M., Murcia, K., Morrison, J., Newhouse, P., Hackling, M., (2012), Learning in transformational computer games: Exploring design principles for a nanotechnology game. AARE 2012 Conference Proceedings & Program, 1-12, Sydney.
• Clarkson, B., Jung, J., Masek, M., (2011), Shared Assessment: a Strategy for Managing Multidisciplinary Projects. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 , 2011(June 27-1 July 2011), 2925-2930, Chesapeake, VA.
• Ranjeet, T., Masek, M., Hingston, P., Lam, P., (2011), The effects of diversity maintenance on coevolution for an intransitive numbers problem. AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 24th Australasian Joint Conference. Proceedings, 7106 LNAI(5-8 December 2011 ), 331-340, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25832-9_34.
• Lee, CS., Lam, P., Masek, M., (2011), Rough-fuzzy hybrid approach for identification of bio-markers and classification on Alzheimer's disease data. Proceedings of 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE 2011, 84-91, Piscataway, N.J., DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2011.20.
• Jung, J., Clarkson, B., Masek, M., (2011), Thinking outside the ?I am the user? box: a trial of social-emotional design in HCI education. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 , 2011(June 27-1 July 2011), 412-418, Chesapeake, VA.
• Ranjeet, T., Hingston, P., Lam, P., Masek, M., (2011), Analysis of Key Installation Protection using Computerized Red Teaming. Thirty-Fourth Australasian Computer Science Conference, 113(January 2011),  137-144,  Perth, Australia.
• Masek, M., Jung, J., Clarkson, B., (2011), Managing Multidisciplinary Student Design Teams. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011, 2011(27 June-1 July), 465-470, Chesapeake, VA.
• Sinclair, JR., Hingston, P., Masek, M., Nosaka, K., (2010), Testing an Exergame for Effectiveness and Attractiveness. Games Innovations Conference (ICE-GIC), 2010 International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's, 1-8, Piscataway, N.J., DOI: 10.1109/ICEGIC.2010.5716909.
• Masek, M., Boeing, A., Bailey, W., (2010), Critical infrastructure protection risk modelling with games technology. What kind of information society? Governance, Virtuality, Surveilance, Sustainability, Resilience, 328(20-23 September 2010), 363-372, Australia, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15479-9_34.
• Sinclair, J., Hingston, P., Masek, M., (2009), Exergame development using the dual flow model. IE '09 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 7p., United States, DOI: 10.1145/1746050.1746061.
• Masek, M., Hingston, P., Carrigy, M., Collins, L., Nosaka, K., (2009), Raising heart rate with dance pad based computer games. Proceedings Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology 09, 245-252, Singapore.
• Lee, CS., Masek, M., Lam, P., Tan, A., (2009), Towards Higher Accuracy and Better Noise Tolerance for Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Using Doppler Ultrasound. TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 1-6, Piscataway, NJ., DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2009.5395885.
• Masek, M., Lee, CS., Lam, P., Tan, A., Fyneman, A., (2009), Remote Home-Based Ante and Post Natal Care. 11th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications & Services 2009. Healthcom 2009, 60-65, Piscataway NJ., DOI: 10.1109/HEALTH.2009.5406204.
• Lee, CS., Masek, M., Lam, P., Tan, A., (2009), Advances in fetal heart rate monitoring using smart phones. Communications and Information Technology, 2009. ISCIT 2009. 9th International Symposium on, 735-740, Piscataway, NJ., DOI: 10.1109/ISCIT.2009.5341146.
• Boeing, A., Masek, M., Bailey, B., (2008), Protecting Critical Infrastructure with Games Technology. Proceedings of the 9th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 27 - 34, Edith Cowan University, Perth.

Research Student Supervision

Co-principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Information Technology,  A Feedback Control System For Exergames..